It’s been roughly eight years since David Cronenberg released his last film, Maps to the Stars, which has been the longest stretch between his releases since the Canadian body-horror maestro started making movies in the late ’60s. Folks have been scared as hell of financing and releasing whatever he’s been cooking up, and it looked like he’d retired for a bit, with supporting roles on Star Trek: Discovery taking up some of his time. But film nerds across the world woke up on Thursday morning with an early present from some sort of evil and fleshy Easter Bunny, cobbled together from cocks and veins and anything else whatever mad God decided to create him: A trailer for Crimes of the Future, Cronenberg’s return to the director’s chair, which will premiere at Cannes. And boy, does it look gross and awesome.
Peep it:
Here’s a synopsis (which we hope comes printed on the barf bags they’re sure to hand out at Cannes):
“As the human species adapts to a synthetic environment, the body undergoes new transformations and mutations. With his partner Caprice (Léa Seydoux), Saul Tenser (Viggo Mortensen), celebrity performance artist, publicly showcases the metamorphosis of his organs in avant-garde performances. Timlin (Kristen Stewart), an investigator from the National Organ Registry, obsessively tracks their movements, which is when a mysterious group is revealed… Their mission – to use Saul’s notoriety to shed light on the next phase of human evolution.”
Crimes of the Future will, as previously stated, premiere next month at the Cannes Film Festival, but you won’t have to wait too long to see it. Neon’s prepping the film for a June release in the U.S., though there’s no specific date listed by the distributor yet, so that means you have only so much time to get all of your body mods before this one comes out.